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He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages.
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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. Sort order. Sep 03, PolicemanPrawn rated it liked it Shelves: very-short-intros. It covers the usual topics — relative frequency approach, subjective probability, history of probability, probability distributions, probability applications — with as little maths as possible.
The author does, to his great credit, describe the Poisson model for football. Jan 31, Abhijeet Jain rated it liked it Shelves: mathematics. I was expecting something better!
Probability: A Very Short Introduction and millions of other books are available for . Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Probability: A Very Short Introduction. John Haigh. Very Short Introductions. Explores ideas of probability and the different philosophical approaches to it.
Being an engineering student I always loved probability! Sometimes it's so intuitive while many times the result seem totally absurd! The book started okish, and kept on degrading until I stopped reading it! I was waiting to read something which I never thought about, but the book turned out very different, It seems as if author wrote to just for the sake of writing it.
I would be reading this book soon again because I feel that maybe I didn't engage with the boo I was expecting something better! I would be reading this book soon again because I feel that maybe I didn't engage with the book better.
And would update the review after it again. Till then my review stands at 2. May 28, Lewis DeGoffau rated it it was amazing. I slightly disliked this author when outside of his area of expertise, but within it, he did well. Clear and thorough explanations made sufficiently interesting. Well organized. Sep 12, Ionarr rated it really liked it. This was a very good short introduction. Exactly what it says on the tin: accessible, easy-to-read, cruising through various aspects of probability in a short amount of space.
It also has the surprise advantage of giving you some small bits of life advice. I chose this because I am well aware that within maths, probability is my main weak point.
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This book provided an excellent theoretical and in some places, practical starting point, and gave me an idea of what I should learn to improve my gras This was a very good short introduction. This book provided an excellent theoretical and in some places, practical starting point, and gave me an idea of what I should learn to improve my grasp of probability. Being in straightforward written format, it has the added advantage of not getting boring, endlessly frustrating or overly technical, like a lot of maths courses or long pages of unexplained sums.
Aug 27, Richard McIsaac rated it liked it. This introduction is one of words and very little mathematics.
A few of the examples are not easy to follow without a basic grasp of the underlying maths. I would have enjoyed more balance between the two approaches. His claim to be the only Project NExT fellow Forest dot, who has taught both English composition and organic chemistry to college students has not, to his knowledge, been successfully contradicted. If it ever is, he is sure that his experience teaching introductory geology will break the deadlock. Skip to main content.
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To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Probability: A Very Short Introduction John Haigh Very Short Introductions Explores ideas of probability and the different philosophical approaches to it Provides a brief account of the history of development of probability theory Considers the work of some of the big players; from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov Discusses a wide range of applications of probability theory in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide.
John Haigh is a mathematics tutor at the University of Sussex.